My drive suddenly stopped working, It powers up and the disc spins, then it makes clicking noises, why?
38729
Drive is dying or dead. If you can start it up, copy everything off of it as SOON as possible. Look up tricks on the internet for drives that have clicking noises. Unfortunately, warranty will only get you another drive, it won't get your data back. Always have TWO backups of your data. I sincerely pray you will be able to get your data off. Even if it starts working again, you should no longer trust the drive. Sorry.
38730
Drive is dying or dead. If you can start it up, copy everything off of it as SOON as possible. Look up tricks on the internet for drives that have clicking noises. Unfortunately, warranty will only get you another drive, it won't get your data back. Always have TWO backups of your data. I sincerely pray you will be able to get your data off. Even if it starts working again, you should no longer trust the drive.Sorry.
38731
Sorry, no idea. I bought WD (Western Digital) Passport as replacement. That seems better.
38732
Drive is about to fail. Try to recover data and send in to Seagate for a new drive.
39144
Make sure the drive unit is rotated with the off/on switch on the bottom also check that the drive unit wires coming out at the end are not letting the case completely close.
1899455
Its seems like hard drive crashed or died. Cannot read os or called operating system. You have to reinstall os on to system.
1726495
Probably a driver issue since you're using XP. Check Seagate's website to see if there's a driver for XP for this HD.
2097067
It depends, some are noisy, but if its a "click" or a tapping sound then I would worry. COntact WD if you have concerns, they are very nice and helpful and they have a great return/ exchange service.
1941857
I had the same issues with sporadic disc-ejection problems. Dragging the disc icon to the trash, using the "Eject Disc" command from the pull down menu, or pushing the eject button on the unit often didn't work. It also would sometimes struggle with reading a blank disc or a disc with data on it. After six months of frustration, I finally bailed and got a different drive (an MCE Blu-Ray Player and SuperDrive, which has worked flawlessly.)
852139
Not sure never had this problem. Sounds like the drive cable/rod is not engaging.
1894889
I just checked www.wdc.com Typed in Serial Number from drive I received. Answer from WD: "The warranty for this product has expired. The product is not eligible for replacement. If you need technical assistance, please send us email." So either Seller is warranting this drive OR NO ONE IS!!! I, for one, would like to hear from the seller on this matter!
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Hello April, unfortunately there could be several reasons. To ensure the drive is actually working, can you hear the discs spinning? You should be able to tell if it is there would be a slight hum. If you are sure the drive works, and it does not show up on your computer, I would start by leaving it plugged in and then restarting your computer. Sometimes you have to clear the system's memory. If that does not work try a different USB port. My computer has one that doesn't work and I found out by accident. Depending on what operating system you are running, i.e. Windows 7, Windows 8, etc you can go to the device manager and see if the drive shows up under "HDD". If it does and you still cannot access the files there may be something wrong with the drive itself. Was this a working drive that you had used before? I'm sorry if I am not much help, I am trying to think of all the things I try on my pc. Please let me know. and Good Luck!
192213
Yes, there must be something wrong, or a few of the disk drives are loose. I would check/reseat the disk drives with the unit powered off. If this does not fix your issue, then I would return it, or get a replacement unit.
1662733
try plugging it back to where it worked well. that's for checking if your hard drive is still good.
345371
this tool set will definitely help. The drive spinning up could be a number of problems and it is most likely right there on the motherboard. This will test the post on the board. that will let you know what part is not doing its job so that the operating system can fully boot up and the computer to actually run.
1376333
Glen, you need to go measure the thickness of your disk break. It takes five minutes. Good luck.
801371
I am not sure. But like you I am also having problems with my hard drive. It has to be replaced.
2010602
I suggest you run disk check on your drive. See if there are any bad sectors and lock them out. It sounds like the drive may be freezing. I'd look at returning the drive.
1029151
Be careful - mine started making clicking sounds at the same location one night and promptly crashed an hour later, so I'm guessing it was the hard drive. I managed to reboot and reinstall using the "ghost" behind the preinstalled partition, and it functioned just fine for the next couple months until today, when I started hearing squeaky noises from the same area. I promptly shut it down and haven't opened it back up yet, but a quick search of the Asus forums also suggests hard drive issues. I've had this netbook for about 15 months, so I'm a little disappointed but not surprised I'm running into problems. You should definitely back up all your files (good practice in general anyway)!
1458922
Yep. After using it initially, I couldn't get windows to see it any more so took it apart. The drive is a Toshiba, which gets great ratings on drives. The problem with the errors could be a windows USB3 driver. Still not sure. Might re-assemble it to see if anything has changed.